we seem to have a recurring question in the middle east whether or not it s a good idea to topple a secular strong man or secular dictators and what happens after that. hillary clinton s war in libya was the same scenario. we toppled gadhafi but we got chaos and the rise of radicals islam and we re more threatened now. i think the same was true of saddam hussein. i think iran is stronger and emboldened and many ways iraq is sort of a vass sill state to iran. we worry about iran getting a nuclear weapon. i think we re a lot worse off with husain gone. a civil war going on there. we were making the mistake to try to degrade assad, isis grew. there s a consistent theme every candidate should be asked, is it a go ahead idea to go into the middle east, topple governments and hope something better rises out of the chaos because recent history seems to show that you know what we re not getting something better, we re getting